Parlor game



G. A. BWKENHEAD.

PARLOR GAME.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 21. m9.

1,331,741. Patented Feb. 24, 19 20.

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UNITED STATES PATENT orricn GEORGE A. BIRKENH ADQOF VANCOUVERBRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

Paranoia GAME.

the player being to locate one or both balls in any of the pockets, to which different values are assigned.

The invention is particularly designed to provide the wherewithal for a game of this kind without the requirement of a cumbersome and somewhat expensive board or special table.

The barrier with this object in view is composed of three short pieces dovetailed together that they may readily be put together on any suitable existing table or on the floor of a room.

The invention is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being made to the drawing by which it is accompanied, which represents the device in perspective as arranged for play.

My improved game apparatus comprises three short pieces of wood, a middle piece 2 and two end pieces 33, the latter being projected at approximately 14 5 degrees from the saidmiddle piece 2.

The abutting ends ofthe pieces 2 and 3 are adapted for being readily jointed together by dove-tailed tongue and groove connections 4, and in such manner that the whole frame, the ends 3 3 and the middle pieces 2, will retain their connection under the impact of balls that engage therewith, as will presently more fully appear. Along the inner edges of the pieces 2 and 3-3 is a series of circular pockets 5, each having a relatively restricted inlet or throat and the series of circular pockets are relatively so arranged that they radiate from and are consequently spaced an equal distance from a spotting point from which the player spots the ball or marble to be projected into any of the pockets in the members 2 and 3-3.

It will be readily apparent from the drawings that by forming the pieces 2 and V Specification of Letters Patent.v Patented Feb. 24, 19 20. Application fiIedMay 21, 1919. Seria1No. 29 8,681.

3-3, and connecting them in the manner shown and described, a central series of pockets 1, is provided h c n p a have minor values, say 5 and 10, since the said pockets are disposed "in a more direct line with the spot ball 6, and the opposite side pockets 3-3 have the major values, say 15, 20,25, since more skill is required to direct the spot ball into the opposite side pockets than'is necessary when projecting the spot ball in the transversely disposed pockets on the middle piece 2.

In'playing my improved game the members 2, 3-3 being connected, as shown, the ball to be played is spotted at (Sand each player impels his spot ball at 6 from a balk line at 7 that extends at right angles to the series of minor pockets 10, 5, 10 and skillfully directs the balk line or marble to so impact the spot ball or marble to cause it to move toward the members 2, 3-3, it being understood that considerable more skill is required for driving the spot ball into the major value pockets 15, 20, 25 than is required to drive the spot ball into the straight ahead pockets .10, 5, 10.;

The device is extremely simple and cheap to manufacture and for that reason has advantages over parlor games of this character which are frequently unnecessarily expensive, and are cumbersome and clumsy both for transport and for disposing in the house.

" The parts can be quickly put together on a table of ordinary size, or, if preferred, on the floor and the game may be played with glass marbles of suitable size to pass through theinlets to the pockets, or, if, as is frequently the case, the noise of such glass marbles is considered objectionable, small ruober balls may be used.

' Having now particularly described my in vention, I hereby declare that what I claim as new and desire to be protected in by Letters Patent, is: i

, 1. A game appliance of the character described comprising three members each havmg a serles of 11ke shaped pockets 1n the lIl- V ner face, the said three members including a'central member and opposite end members, the said end member being projected inwardly at approximately degrees with respect to the central member, the meeting faces of the said central and end members radiating from a common center that constitutes the spot from which a ball may be impelled toward the pockets.

2. A game appliance of the character alon the inner edges ofthecenter and end stated, comprising a ball receiving space inmem hers, all of the said pockets being subcluding a central member having aseries of stantially at an equal distance from a compockets on the inner edge, an end member mon point that constitutes the spot from 5 projected from each end of the central'memwhich the 'ball is to be impelled toward 15 her and extending inwardly from the said the pocket edges of the central and the end central member at approximately 145 dem mbers, r v grees With respect to the said central mem- In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

. "her, a series of pockets, each of which in- 10 cludes a restricted throat or passage located GEORGE A. BIRKENHEAD. 

